All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
- "Animal Farm"
In 2019, there was a movie that was greatly annoyed by US President Trump. He posted two tweets in a row, publicly accusing Hollywood of being racist and the movie being extremely politically incorrect. Its release will threaten the national security of the United States, and it is very likely to instigate or trigger protests at the bottom of the country, thereby causing division of the country.
The film that the president is particularly interested in is "The Hunt." The main plot of the story is very simple. 12 civilians were kidnapped to the wasteland, and the kidnappers hunted them. The movie is full of headshots, bloodshed, fighting and other scenes, and it is determined that minors under the age of 18 should not watch it.
The surface is bloody and violent, but the undertone carries a strong political metaphor. The original name of the film was "Red and Blue States War" , which directly pointed to the struggle between the two parties of democracy and republic in the United States . Calm down and watch the movie, you will find a deeper meaning. It exposes the contradiction between the American elite and the common people. The former despise the latter, the latter is hostile to the former, and the conflict between the two values has caused The appearance of the current tear in American society.
1. Internet violence caused by a joke
The story stems from a leak of chat records. Six corporate executives chatted in a group chat on social software. Suddenly, someone mentioned hunting 12 "poor bugs" in the manor. Someone realized that the remarks were inappropriate and quickly stopped the discussion. Unexpectedly, the chat was leaked, which quickly triggered a network violence.
The use of "deplorable" here is very meaningful. Hillary once said at a party that Trump's supporters are deplorable, adding racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, Fear of green and other modifiers. This remark immediately caused an uproar, which later led to Hillary's apology, and the media still seized on the word and pursued it.
The keyboard warriors on the Internet criticized and criticized the company, and the company involved was forced to dismiss the six executives. The matter is not over, the elites feel that their "right to freedom of speech" has been deprived, and they are determined not to do it again and again. .
In this debate, the elites have been refusing to admit they were wrong. Athena, the leader of the 6 people, called the civilian class "a keyboard warrior full of feces." She said, "People like you like to look at problems according to your own thinking, grab whatever content is taken out of context, and start twisting and fabricating it until it conforms to your backward world view."
What about keyboard warriors ? They did not verify the ridicule remarks of the elites, and directly criticized and criticized them online. They also picked up evidence such as manors and weapons, and made a big deal. Does this online conspiracy theory look familiar?
The film uses blood and violence to polarize the struggle between two different classes. The elites are gentle and polite on the surface, but they are full of hypocrisy, arrogance and self-righteousness; the commoners at the bottom seem weak and selfish, but they are unscrupulous and unbridled on the Internet. The two lack a platform for dialogue and no room for trust.
2. All are but poor animals
The film uses a lot of metaphors from George Orville's Animal Farm. The poster of the movie is a pig, and the one with the 12 people is a pig. The pig is the protagonist of "Animal Farm". The old couple who ran the old couple satirized the commoners, "Will there be good fruit to eat after the rebellion?" The name "Snowball" (the name of a pig) given by Athena to the commoner heroine was all from "Animal Farm".
Pig is the name given to commoners by the elites, with strong contempt. They completely separated themselves from the commoners, as if the two were different races. Athena's words are representative, "This country belongs to you ignorant people without culture, and it belongs to us. If you fail, we have to pay the price. What a waste of your life."
It would be wrong to say that the film favors the elite, which is full of satire and sarcasm. Elite Martin, who helped treat AIDS in the Republic of Haiti, which was caught up in a decades-long humanitarian crisis, sounded so zealous and charitable, but his peers laughed at him and ran away after growing a girl's belly in Haiti.
Their political correctness is equally ridiculous.
In picking out who to kill, elites felt that if they didn't include a person of color, it would definitely go wrong. When someone uses the word "guys", it immediately leads to a boring discussion of feminism. They say "we have to tear off the cloak of old ideas and let them (civilians) expose their prejudices", which just exposes the ridiculousness and boredom of their own values.
On the surface, this group of people has no worries about food and clothing, has a private jet, drank 251,000 bottles of champagne, and lived a life of financial freedom early on.
In fact, it is no different from the civilian class. The likes of a big man on ins made this group of elites excited. When the cyber crisis hit, they were immediately abandoned by the company, leaving no room for bargaining.
After all, they are just a class in the middle. In "Animal Farm", after the victory of the uprising, the pigs became the management because of their high IQ. They gradually forgot that they were once enslaved animals, but humans have not forgotten this fact.
The end of the movie reinforces this judgment. The elites professed to be hunters and relegated commoners to estate animals. However, the civilian heroine asked rhetorically, "Snowball is an idealist, he wants to change the world for the better, and other pigs unite, fabricate lies to squeeze him out, and turn him into an enemy, isn't it you who said it?" Only then did I realize this cruel truth.
At the end of "Animal Farm", animals lie on the windows and see pigs and humans toasting, they can't tell the difference between humans and pigs. In "Hunting", the elites live extremely luxurious lives, and they don't know who they really are.
The ruled fantasizes that they are the rulers, and this is their greatest sorrow.
The appearance at the end of the movie is reversed, all the elites and cyber bullies are dead, and the only surviving female protagonist is the wrongly arrested third party.
There is no winner in this bloody confrontation between the elite and the "keyboard man".
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